Keisha

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Keisha: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Keisha: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #238 in 2004, and it stood at #3,015 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
51times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#238highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#643
1997	#672
1998	#552
1999	#594
2000	#591
2001	#550
2002	#476
2003	#462
2004	#419
2005	#473
2006	#359
2007	#382
2008	#383
2009	#522
2010	#695
2011	#841
2012	#1058
2013	#1220
2014	#1702
2015	#2705
2016	#2547
2017	#3229
2018	#3178
2019	#2458
2020	#3447
2021	#2711
2022	#3533
2023	#2504
2024	#3015

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2014: #584 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1702 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #643 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1998–2011
Highest recorded position: #238 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2004 (recorded 1998–2011).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3015 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Keisha appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,239 births with the name.

Keisha across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Keisha's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#643 (1996)	#359 (2006)	#3015 (2024)	29 of 29	1,239 (1996–2024)	118 (2006)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#536 (2000)	#287 (2004)	#584 (2014)	15 of 15	109 (2000–2014)	14 (2008)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#351 (1998)	#238 (2004)	#363 (2011)	7 of 14	30 (1998–2011)	6 (2004)

Keisha by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Keisha in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	166	4 of 10	42
2000sbusiest	817	10 of 10	82
2010s	217	10 of 10	22
2020s	39	5 of 10	8

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 82 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2005 and 2006, when recorded births rose by 40, from 78 to 118.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Keisha appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #238 in Northern Ireland in 2004.

Keisha's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#3015	8	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2504	10	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3533	6	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2711	9	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3447	6	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2458	10	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3178	7	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#3229	7	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2547	10	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2705	9	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1702	17	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1220	28	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1058	33	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#841	43	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#695	53	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#522	77	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#383	115	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#382	110	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#359	118	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#473	78	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#419	86	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#462	73	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#476	64	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#550	51	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#591	45	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#594	44	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#552	49	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#672	36	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#643	37	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	female	#363	4	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#370	4	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	female	#301	5	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	female	#332	4	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	female	#238	6	High	Verified
2001	Northern Ireland	female	#293	4	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	female	#351	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#584	6	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	5	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#798	4	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#758	4	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#539	7	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#341	14	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#348	12	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#303	13	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#372	9	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#287	12	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#333	9	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#620	3	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#498	4	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	female	#536	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #238, first reached in 2004.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 118 births, registered in England and Wales in 2006.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1998, and 4 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Keita · #758, 14y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Alix · #238, 29y
Erinn · #238, 28y
Johnathon · #238, 25y
Karis · #238, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Alix · #238, 29y
Amy-Lee · #238, 16y
Bobbie · #238, 30y
Ciarrai · #238, 13y

Keisha was ranked #238 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2004. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Keisha and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Keisha without appearing here.

Keisha moved ahead of

Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3178 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2458 and #5591.
Donna Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3447 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2711 and #4634.
Brittany Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3533 and #3533 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3015 and #4843.
Levi Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3533 and #3533 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2504 and #4056.

Moved ahead of Keisha

Janice Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2711 and #3961 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #3533 and #1948.
Rory Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2458 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3447 and #1939.
Meabh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #3229 and #4063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #3178 and #1711.
Blake Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1702 and #2203 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #2705 and #1240.

Moved the opposite way to Keisha

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Keisha went from #643 to #3015 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Keisha went from #643 to #3015 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Keisha went from #643 to #3015 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Keisha went from #643 to #3015 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Keisha

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Keisha went from #643 to #3015 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Keisha went from #643 to #3015 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Keisha went from #643 to #3015 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Keisha went from #643 to #3015 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #238 in Northern Ireland in 2004. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Keisha

Keisha at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Keisha across 3 official records

Keisha by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Keisha appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Keisha at a glance

Keisha across 3 official records

Keisha by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Keisha appears in

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Keisha and the names beside it

Keisha moved ahead of

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